The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-23

there is an account of an attack upon
the American flag, or rather upon an
unarmed, defenseless, private citizen of
the United States, at an Anarchist picnic
at Guttenburg, N. j., apparently for no
other reason than that this person had
pinned on the lapel of his coat small
American flag. Evidently this man
would not have been molested had he
not displayed the flag, the flag not the
man was the offensive object and through
the flag the government of which it is
the representative or emblem was at
tackled. Is there no significance in the
fact that the flag which, displayed on
the lapel of the coat, would have secured
for the wearer protection from violence
in any government under the sun at
home subjects him to personal injury
and danger of death?
The somewhat frequent recurrence of
such demonstrations is evidence that
they are not accidental, and their fire.
quency is beginning tn be food for Sc
rious thought In various sections of
the country there are outbreaks and
demonstrations of violence and lawless-
ness, which are proof positive that we
have in our midst a dangerous element
arrayed i'm hostility against the Govern
ment. If we institute an investigation
into the matter we shall find that this is
a foreign element almost entirely; that
it not only has no sympathy whatever
with our institutions, but is in open hos
tility against them, and that its con-
slant study is how best to subvert and
overthrow the whole fabric of civil gov
eminent. These frequent demonstra-
tons, although they are spread over a
great extent of country, are parts of one
great whole, and under the management
and control of one general head. See
how this Gutenberg affair is linked to
the Chicago Haymarket demonstration.
Notice that the principal figure here is
Herr Most, who so often comes to the
front on these occasions, and that this
Gutenberg attack of tie flag is the
| direct result of his inflammatory and
incendiary denunciation of the flag.
Freiheit, Herr Most's organ, said some
time ago, Religion, authority and the
state are all carved out of one piece of
woOd-to the devil with them ALL" And
| in another article entitled Revolution
airy Principles" he said: ''He (the revo-
lutionist) is the irreconcilable enemy of
| this world, and if he continues to live in
| it, it is only that he may thereby more
| certainly destroy it. He knows only one
science, namely-destructio For this
purpose he studies day and night for
him everything is moral which favors
thing is immoral which binders it. Day
and night may he cherish only one
thought, only one purpose, namely-in-
exOrable destruction. While he pursues
this purpose without rest and i'm cold
| blood he must be ready to die, and
equally ready to kill everyone with his
| own hands who hinders him i'm the at
tainment of this purpose"
For this purpose of universal destruc-
ton meetings are held, speeches made
and money is used without stint. There
is no doubt that large and powerful or
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avowed object is the complete overthrow
of all organized government. Children
are educated in this hostility to law and
| order, and taught to hate and curse the
| only government which has in these days
made all men equal before the law, and
has, during its entire history, been the
friend of the poor man and of the labor
ing classes which are so largely repre-
sented by these destructionists.
| While all this plotting against the life
of the Government is going ON, the Gov
eminent is perfectly Indifferent as to
what may be the result. Whether this
attitude of the Government is the result
| of supine Indifference or a confession of
conscious weakness and inability to cope
with the evil, the fact is that the evil is
growing; that incendiary and sedition-
airy speeches are being made, organiza-
tons are being perfected and the press is
kept running for the purpose of sowing
the seeds Of anarchy and breaking down
all government everywhre.
| There i-country so well adapted to
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and Nihilist rs ours, and there is no gov
eminent so weak to resist. The very
/ genius of our free institutions being ca
pable of receiving in a measure, at least,
the construction put upon them by these
malcontents will be in the approaching
| contest between government and an
archy elements of weakness rather
than of strength. Being situated as they
| are, midway between the Capitalization
| of power in absolutism and the broad
est personal liberty, which with these
| people means unrestrained licenses will
be the first and most vulnerable point of
attack. 1t is dangerous delusion to
suppose that because our government
! affords greater liberties than others it is
more secure so far as these dangerous
elements are concerned. Mill is the
motto. There is no soil on earth so well
adapted to the growth of these destruc-
| tive ideas. Here all that is necessary to
| nourish them into life, exists in abund-
| ance and we are even now fostering in
| our midst a terrible gorgon which, like
| the serpent carried home by the peasant
and warmed into life before his fire shall
| awake and enfold us in its crushing EN-
brace How long shall it be before we
awake to our danger. OCCASIONAL
The Emu eror Of Japan.
The emperor of Japan is dark and his
| features are heavy and irregular, but
| there is much dignity and majesty in his
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